“It’s just that we wear rose-coloured spectacles when we return here [to Oxford] – we are dazzled by the foolish idealism of… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“She wondered whimsically if he wore those spectacles in a vain attempt to keep ladies from fainting at his feet.” — Amanda McCabe Copy Share Image
I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world. — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think… — Jan de Bont Copy Share Image
All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
There is no shape nor size of body, no awkwardness nor ungainliness, which puts good golf beyond reach. There are good golfers… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.” “I didn’t want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he President of innumerable Royal Societies, and carried the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself,… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Compelling spectacles are not to reach a niche market, it could be for reaching a niche marketing but on a grand scale.… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I don't remember 'Doctor Who' not being part of my life, and it became a part of growing up, along with The… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“The wonder of life is in the miracle of life. There is spectacle, there is awe and there is incredulity. The blunder… — Anthony Pan Copy Share Image
Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more… — Kate Greenaway Copy Share Image
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